Sociologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Medical Center Numerous times since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has lashed out at Latin American countries for their purported role in the opioid epidemic, a relentless public health disaster that has claimed over 1 million lives, while costing the U.

A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city's West Side and asked the woman behind it if she had any clean needles or naloxone, a medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.

A vaccine to protect against fentanyl's deadly effects is headed for clinical trials in humans.